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Interesting. And I've recently moved to FreeBSD and let it imitate a Mac with Xfce, and I have graphics, Wi-Fi, black jack and hookers [1]. I never thought this

Interesting. And I've recently moved to FreeBSD and let it imitate a Mac with Xfce, and I have graphics, Wi-Fi, black jack and hookers [1]. I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world. [1] http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 http://trafyx.com/?p=2551

cmroanirgo 8y ago
> [1] http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 Very nice. To me, the biggest things I have grown to love since moving to a mac are: - Spotlight (& I use it far less than most). You mention Desktop Search as the replacement. Have you wired it up to cmd+space? - Time Machine (the way it handles going back in time for your current Finder window is awesome). For me, an rsync solution is a poor cousin to Time Machine, purely because of the graphic aspect. It would be awesome to know of a FOSS equivalent to it (but would need to work with your current file manager: thunar).
- blackhaz 8y ago
  Thanks. I don't use the Desktop Search that often but I think one can bind a shortcut to it. On the rsync, I can mount the remote file system and browse through the backups in the Double Commander or Thunar, so the graphical aspect is fully there. Plus, I have reports in the Terminal when the last successful backup was done. I don't really think I miss anything. Edit: the rsync setup to do incremental backups and naming backup folders after the day of the week is mentioned on the rsync's home: https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html It's interesting how much more creative backups can be when you have full control over rsync on which, if I am not wrong, the Time Machine itself is built.
- IronBacon 8y ago
  I don't know how Time Machine works, but deja-dup integrates with Gnome's Nautilus. In the backed-up dirs, when selecting a file, it offers a menu entry to revert to a previous backed-up version, based on a date.
- jen20 8y ago
  ZFS snapshots on FreeBSD can help with the Time Machine functionality if not the GUI experience.
lloeki 8y ago
> I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world. I've seen (and had at some point) much better results than those seen there (the screenshots here are painful to look at – OMG uneven spacing), at the time based on GNOME 2 (with a GTK patch for the global menu). Even then it's a far cry from being anything remotely like macOS and, while functional, leaks at every seam and reeks of being a shallow imitation: it's meagre coat of paint that flakes all around†. Whenever I am to use a Linux/BSD machine now I'd rather embrace the environment†† instead of attempting to mimic an entirely foreign one. † To each their own, I'm happy that the author found a good compromise, it's just not one I'm willing to make. †† Generally using some i3, awesome, or *box (none used as tiling window managers), minimising the use of GTK/QT apps as much as possible (a bit extreme but I visually can't stand them).
- laumars 8y ago
  Imitation is definitely not the way to go. I have the same problems using Windows and OS X because I'm so ingrained into the Linux desktop that I find it really painful to make quick hacks to OS X to get it working the way I want (OS X might give a more polished "out of the box" experience, but it's also less flexible should you want anything even just subtly different to Apple's vision of the world). And Windows is just Windows. I don't think there has ever been a commercial platform released that even comes close to how terrible Windows (throughout it's numerous iterations) is.

cmroanirgo 8y ago

> [1] http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 Very nice. To me, the biggest things I have grown to love since moving to a mac are: - Spotlight (& I use it far less than most). You mention Desktop Search as the replacement. Have you wired it up to cmd+space? - Time Machine (the way it handles going back in time for your current Finder window is awesome). For me, an rsync solution is a poor cousin to Time Machine, purely because of the graphic aspect. It would be awesome to know of a FOSS equivalent to it (but would need to work with your current file manager: thunar).

blackhaz 8y ago
Thanks. I don't use the Desktop Search that often but I think one can bind a shortcut to it. On the rsync, I can mount the remote file system and browse through the backups in the Double Commander or Thunar, so the graphical aspect is fully there. Plus, I have reports in the Terminal when the last successful backup was done. I don't really think I miss anything. Edit: the rsync setup to do incremental backups and naming backup folders after the day of the week is mentioned on the rsync's home: https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html It's interesting how much more creative backups can be when you have full control over rsync on which, if I am not wrong, the Time Machine itself is built.
IronBacon 8y ago
I don't know how Time Machine works, but deja-dup integrates with Gnome's Nautilus. In the backed-up dirs, when selecting a file, it offers a menu entry to revert to a previous backed-up version, based on a date.
jen20 8y ago
ZFS snapshots on FreeBSD can help with the Time Machine functionality if not the GUI experience.

lloeki 8y ago

> I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world. I've seen (and had at some point) much better results than those seen there (the screenshots here are painful to look at – OMG uneven spacing), at the time based on GNOME 2 (with a GTK patch for the global menu). Even then it's a far cry from being anything remotely like macOS and, while functional, leaks at every seam and reeks of being a shallow imitation: it's meagre coat of paint that flakes all around†. Whenever I am to use a Linux/BSD machine now I'd rather embrace the environment†† instead of attempting to mimic an entirely foreign one. † To each their own, I'm happy that the author found a good compromise, it's just not one I'm willing to make. †† Generally using some i3, awesome, or *box (none used as tiling window managers), minimising the use of GTK/QT apps as much as possible (a bit extreme but I visually can't stand them).

laumars 8y ago
Imitation is definitely not the way to go. I have the same problems using Windows and OS X because I'm so ingrained into the Linux desktop that I find it really painful to make quick hacks to OS X to get it working the way I want (OS X might give a more polished "out of the box" experience, but it's also less flexible should you want anything even just subtly different to Apple's vision of the world). And Windows is just Windows. I don't think there has ever been a commercial platform released that even comes close to how terrible Windows (throughout it's numerous iterations) is.